Subordinators - Practice Exercises 4l125y

Handout 8

Subordinators Subordinators are linking words that are used to clauses together. They are used at the beginning or in the middle of a sentence. A clause is a group of words that must contain a subject and predicate. There are two types of clauses:  

independent clauses - these can stand alone as a sentence by themselves dependent clauses - these make no sense by themselves.

Example

Common subordinators Below are some examples of commonly used subordinators. Comparison & Contrast     

Although Though Even though While Whereas

Possibility  if  as if  whether  unless  As far as  As soon as  As though  Even if  Supposing (that)

Cause / effect    

Since So that Because Inasmuch as

Place & manner  Wherever  Where  How

Time      

After When Until Whenever Before once

Exercise 1: Subordination 1. I had to hand the project over to Max. You didn’t respond to any of my e-mails. __________________________________________________________________ 2. Another candidate with more qualifications applies in the next forty-eight hours. You should get the position without any difficulties. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 3. Viktor had prepared and practiced for the presentation thoroughly. The projector died and the presentation was not successful. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 4. Keep calling our customers from last year. You make your sales quota. ___________________________________________________________________ 5. The instructor copies his lesson directly from the textbook. The students lose interest and doze off. ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________